Kevon ‘Show­time’ Wood­ley gave a dis­play on the field for San Juan Jabloteh on Fri­day night, scor­ing a hat-trick to guide his team to a 5-1 de­mo­li­tion of Cen­tral FC in the first Tier of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League at the Ari­ma Velo­drome.

On Sat­ur­day, W Con­nec­tion and Point Fortin Civic FC were in win­ner’s row against Cale­do­nia 1-0 and Cunu­pia FC 2-0 at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Mal­abar, Ari­ma, and the Man­ny Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la, re­spec­tive­ly.

Al­ready un­able to make it to the top three spots that earned berths at the CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Shield and CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Cup, both of which will take place in Au­gust, the San Juan men who were sec­ond from bot­tom on the 12-team stand­ings, lift­ed them­selves two spots up to ninth po­si­tion on 12 points af­ter 19 match­es, with the win­ning re­sult.

They leapfrogged Pris­ons Ser­vice and Mor­vant Cale­do­nia who were in 10th and ninth po­si­tions, re­spec­tive­ly. On Fri­day, the Prison of­fi­cers were sched­uled to face lead­ers AC Port-of-Spain in the oth­er game of a dou­ble­head­er at the Ari­ma venue, be­fore poor mark­ings on the field af­ter the first match, forced of­fi­cials not to play the game.

Af­ter 12 loss­es to date, the Jabloteh men sought to put some re­spectabil­i­ty back to their sta­tis­tics and were re­ward­ed af­ter just the 15th minute when Jadel-Josi­ah Carter hand­ed them the ad­van­tage.

Cen­tral FC, cur­rent­ly mid-ta­ble, was al­so ea­ger to make amends for a start that went aw­ful­ly wrong. And de­spite go­ing down ear­ly, they found the equalis­er 1-1 on the stroke of half­time from Ri­car­do John.

It was a dif­fer­ent ball game when the match re­sumed, how­ev­er, as ‘Show­time’ Wood­ley showed Cunu­pia what they are sad­ly lack­ing with­out him. He re­stored the Jabloteh ad­van­tage to 2-1 with his item in the 52nd minute, and nine min­utes lat­er, he made it 3-1, a goal that ap­peared to have snatched the game out of the Cen­tral FC’s reach.

Still, with the game in its mid­way stage, Wood­ley com­plet­ed his hat-trick and gave his team a 4-1 lead.

Now beat­en, Cen­tral FC sur­ren­dered the match in the 85th minute when Ish­mael Sawyer fired in his Jabloteh fifth and fi­nal goal of the match.

The win pushed them to 12 points, a mere one-point dif­fer­ence from the Prison of­fi­cers who have now gone to 11th po­si­tion.

Mean­while, in Ari­ma, Con­nec­tion got a soli­tary goal from the boot of Isa­iah Hud­son in the fourth minute to se­cure max­i­mum points, while the pair of Mar­cus Joseph and Shack­iel Hen­ry was on tar­get for the Point Fortin men, en­sur­ing that they stay in the sev­enth po­si­tion with 24 points.

Re­sults

Fri­day

Jabloteh 5 (Jadel-Josi­ah Carter 15, Kevon Wood­ley 52nd, 59th, 67th, Ish­mael Sawyer 85th) vs Cen­tral FC 1 (Ri­car­do John 45th)

Sat­ur­day

W Con­nec­tion 1 (Isa­iah Hud­son 4th) vs Cale­do­nia 0

Point Fortin Civic 2 (Mar­cus Joseph, Shack­iel Hen­ry) vs Cunu­pia FC 0

Sun­day’s match­es

Club San­do vs La Hor­quet­ta Rangers, 4 pm at Man­ny Ramjohn Sta­di­um

De­fence Force vs Po­lice FC, 4 pm at Lar­ry Gomes

Stand­ings

Place*Team*P*W*D*L*F*A*Pts

1*AC PoS*18*16*0*2*52*13*48

2*De­fence Force*18*15*1*2*43*11*46

3*Club San­do*18*13*2*3*37*18*41

4*L.H Rangers*18*13*1*4*56*25*40

5*Po­lice*18*10*1*7*37*30*31

6*Cen­tral FC*19*8*1*10*31*39*25

7*Pt Fortin Civic*19*7*3*9*18*20*24

8*W Con­nec­tion*19*6*4*9*18*26*22

9*Jabloteh*18*3*3*12*24*24*12

10*Mor­vant Cale­do­nia*18*3*2*13*17*44*11

11*Pris­ons Ser­vice*18*3*2*13*11*46*11

12*Cunu­pia FC*19*2*2*15*10*42*8